Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

· 1623 - 1662 · 82 kata bijak

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

Alam

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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Alam

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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Keluarga

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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Kehidupan

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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Kepemimpinan

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

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Kepemimpinan

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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Cinta

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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Agama

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

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Keluarga

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

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Kehidupan

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

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Kehidupan

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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Waktu

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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Waktu

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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Cinta

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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Nasihat

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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Cinta

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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Nasihat

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

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Nasihat

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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Nasihat

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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Nasihat

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

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